Perceptual learning: Top to bottom

Vision Research

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-77

  Amitay, Sygal ^a   Zhang, Yu Xuan ^a,b   Jones, Pete R ^a,c   Moore, David R ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Decision inefficiency; Decision making; Internal noise; Perceptual learning; Transfer of learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84907029754     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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